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Verizon shareholders endorse execs' pay packages

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created May 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. shareholders have overwhelmingly endorsed the pay package for its top executives.





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60 percent of nuclear cancer cases denied

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 13, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Compensation has been denied in 60 percent of 72,000 cases processed by U.S. regulators involving Cold War nuclear weapons workers stricken with cancer.


Verizon shareholders to vote on executive pay

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created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A movement to give shareholders influence over compensation awarded to company executives gets an early test Thursday as Verizon Communications Inc. becomes the latest to hold a "say on pay" vote.


Microsoft CEO's compensation down 6 percent in '09

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The value of the compensation package granted to Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer fell about 6 percent in fiscal 2009, a year in which weak computer sales cut into the software maker's profits.


Severity of Injury, Not Legal Fees, Drives Cost of Workers' Compensation

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The severity of injury and level of impairment -- not the workers' legal fees -- have the most effect on payout for workers' compensation claims among Illinois construction workers, researchers at the University ...


Tech industry takes unlikely lead on reforming executive pay

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created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technology companies are hardly the most prominent villains in the ongoing drama over exorbitant executive pay.


NXP Introduces Advanced 3DTV Processor

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NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of the PNX5130, the industry's first video co-processor enabling 3DTV, frame-rate conversion (FRC) and local backlight dimming in a single chip. By eliminating the need ...


Health care loophole would allow coverage limits (AP)

Health care loophole would allow coverage limits

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient ...


Human guinea pigs link pay and risk levels

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human guinea pigs do their homework before volunteering for high-paying clinical trials. New research shows that people equate large payments for participation in medical research with increased levels of risk. And when they ...


Therapy 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than money

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester finds that psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money. The research ...


A Chinese court has found Microsoft guilty of infringing a Chinese company's intellectual property rights

Court rules against Microsoft in China font case

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Chinese court has ruled Microsoft Corp. infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property rights by including certain fonts in its operating systems, the companies confirmed Tuesday.



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